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The top U.S. general spoke to his Chinese counterpart Thursday morning, ending roughly 16 months of broken military-to-military engagement at the highest levels, the Pentagon announced.
The death toll caused by the devastating earthquake that rattled Northwest China Monday night reached 134 as of Wednesday press time - 113 in Gansu Province and 21 in Qinghai Province. Rescue work is drawing to an end, and the focus will now turn to the treatment of the injured and the resettlement of those affected, Gansu authorities said at a press conference on Wednesday.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the remote and mountainous part of northwest China, killing over 111 people. According to local earthquake relief headquarters, the quake struck the ethnic county of Jishishan in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu province and neighbouring Qinghai province on Monday midnight.
China earthquake today: magnitude, map of earthquake
Recent tensions in the South China Sea: USS Gabrielle Giffords' sail-past and Philippine-China disputes amplify diplomatic challenges.